Admissions & selectivity
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee?
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s reported acceptance rate is 90.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 90.7%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee admits 90.7% of applicants, a rate that sits above the median of 78.1% for comparable institutions (same type and size).
What SAT and ACT scores do University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students report?
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- 25th percentile
- 18
- 75th percentile
- 25
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 32.8%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 25.9%
- First-year retention
- 73.0%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee enrolls 16,758 undergraduates, and an estimated 25.9% of them arrive as transfers or part-time students. 32.8% of undergraduates receive Pell Grants.
The composition is a large public campus where federal grant aid and transfer pathways both shape who attends. The enrollment figures describe who is here, not admission priorities or any one applicant's odds.
For full-time first-year students, 73.0% return for a second year and 49.3% complete a degree within six years. Both figures sit below the peer medians of 83.1% and 65.0% for comparable institutions.
Pell recipients in the same entering cohort complete at 46.6%, which is 2.7 percentage points below the overall rate. The completion figures point to a campus where finishing on time is not the default outcome.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
Admission rates describe past applicants, not an individual’s chance of admission; confirm requirements and deadlines with the institution.
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